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10 Things You Need to Know About Losing Weight

Health | 16 May, 2012 | 1 Comment | 60 mins

"This documentary discusses the issue of weight loss. Every year millions of people in Britain try to lose weight, and most fail. The film talks about how we continue to hear advices on the need to reduce weight and the dieting and the latest slimming fads doing the rounds. But what really works? In this[...]

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Homeopathy: The Test

Health | 02 May, 2012 | No Comments | 50 mins

The film draws on a conflict between Homeopathy and traditional medicine. Homeopathy the film claims has been pioneered over 200 years ago, with a strong view among practitioners and patients about its power to heal.  Famous personalities have used Homeopathy as a treatment while still there remain many skeptics that question the healing power of[...]

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Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime

Health | 02 May, 2012 | 1 Comment | 84 mins

This documentary highlights the journey of Harry M. Hoxsey, whose family’s herbal medicine is claimed to be a cure for cancer. Hoxsey was a coal miner and eventually established his clinics in 17 states within two and a half decades starting from 1924. He had to constantly face criticisms and allegations of being a quack and charlatan.[...]

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Dying To Have Known

Health | 30 Apr, 2012 | 99 Comments | 79 mins

‘Dying To Have Known’ is a documentary made by filmmaker Steve Kroschel, whose quest to find out about the efficacy and veracity of the Gerson Therapy, known to cure degenerative diseases by natural methods, takes him on a 52 day journey across both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, from upstate New York to San[...]

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Don’t Swallow Your Toothpaste

Health | 26 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 24 mins

‘Don’t Swallow Your Toothpaste’ highlights the escalating dangers of Fluoride, which is used majorly in toothpastes. It shows how it has benefited mankind by working magically on tooth decay helping the poor people especially. Some parts of Britain like Birmingham already add fluoride to the water and there are now plans to extend this to other cities:[...]

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THIN

Health | 19 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 10 mins

THIN, the 2006 released documentary film directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO, explores The Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida. This center is a 40-bed residential house for women undergoing treatment for eating disorders. The film focuses on four women suffering from anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia and how they struggle for recovery and survival. This[...]

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Prescription for Disaster

Health | 16 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 93 mins

‘Prescription for Disaster’ is a documentary film investigating the symbiotic relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, the FDA, lobbyists, lawmakers, medical schools, and researchers, and the impact this has on consumers and their health care. It explores the consequences we, as a society face because of the way business and health treatment works today. The film highlights[...]

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Strange Culture

Health | 16 Apr, 2012 | 26 Comments | 74 mins

Strange Culture builds on a tragic event in the life of Steve Kurtz , an associate professor of art at the State University of New York, Buffalo and transforms it into a compelling narrative. The filmmaker employs the nonfiction to her advantage and makes a compelling case against genetically modified food and depicts how easily an[...]

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The Truth About Vitamins

Health | 11 Apr, 2012 | No Comments |

Everyday millions of people take vitamin supplements. But the question is are they any good. Sure our bodies need vitamins but is supersaturating ourselves with these vitamins really good for us? This documentary proposes that vitamin supplements are not all that they are reported to[...]

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Super Size Me

Health | 08 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 100 mins

‘Super Size Me’ is an entertaining and interesting documentary directed and acted in by Morgan Spurlock, this documentary being his debut film. He carries out an experiment on himself to highlight American culture’s disturbing trend towards obesity; he eats three McDonalds meals a day every day for 30 consecutive days, provides an amusing and occasionally disturbing[...]

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Nutrition and Behavior Aspartame (Lecture)

Health | 06 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 48 mins

‘Nutrition and Behavior Aspartame’ is a lecture by Dr. Russell Blaylock, wherein he explains the relation between nutrition and behavior.

He shows how good nutrition can augment memory and behavior in a desirable way and poor nutrition can lead to violence, crimes, depression and suicides, by citing a number of examples.

He further provides testament to his[...]

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One Night in Bhopal

Health | 02 Apr, 2012 | No Comments | 53 mins

‘One Night in Bhopal’ is a drama-documentary telling one of the most horrific tales in the history of mankind through five local eye-witnesses, a local police superintendent who helped to restore calm on the night and a young technician at the factory whose life was saved by an oxygen mask.

The world’s worst industrial catastrophe, that[...]

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Food Matters

Health | 20 Mar, 2012 | No Comments | 77 mins

‘Food Matters’ is a controversial documentary made by the Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch, which focuses on how the modern society is getting sicker by the day as a consequence of treating already malnourished bodies with nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our pharmaceutical drugs. The film highlights and challenges our existing thought-processes that we[...]

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The Disappearing Male

Health | 20 Mar, 2012 | No Comments | 44 mins

‘The disappearing male’ highlights a disturbing trend focusing on how the foundation of human development is threatened by toxic substances found in everything from shampoo, sunglasses, meat and dairy products, carpet, cosmetics and baby bottles, called “hormone mimicking” or “endocrine disrupting” chemicals, which are damaging the male reproductive system. The fact that the last few decades[...]

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Half Ton Man

Health | 18 Mar, 2012 | No Comments | 49 mins

‘Half Ton Man’ examines the science of extreme weight loss and the perplexing lives of the growing number of people who seem intent on eating themselves to death. It tells the astonishing story of Patrick Duel, who reached a record breaking weight of 76 stone 8lbs, making him  one of the heaviest men ever and a[...]

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Why Are Thin People Not Fat?

Health | 17 Mar, 2012 | No Comments | 9 mins

The film examines the intriguing question of despite an obesity epidemic, there remains a few who do not succumb to it and remain thin and healthy. The medical world perplexed with this discrepancy provides answers that suggest becoming fat is not primarily about diet and exercise. The experiment conducted on overeating attempts to find out as to[...]

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Can GM Food Save The World?

Health | 08 Mar, 2012 | No Comments | 59 mins

The film discusses the benefits that GM provides and the dangers associated with it. The world which is witnessing spiraling food prices has again shifted its focus to the problem of food security. With the world population likely to reach 9 billion in a few decades, the responsibility to feed every mouth is even a greater[...]

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